Phasic alerting of neglect patients overcomes their spatial deficit in visual awareness

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6698, 1998, Pages 169-172

  Robertson, Ian H ^a   Mattingley, Jason B ^a   Rorden, Chris ^a,b   Driver, Jon ^b  

^a Brain Sciences Unit   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MESENCEPHALON; NEGLECT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; THEORY; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032505056     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/25993     Document Type: Article

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